What is the difference between Terraform and Ansible? Terraform is an open-source platform designed to provision cloud infrastructure, while Ansible is an open-source configuration management tool focused on the configuration of that infrastructure. By Sumeet Ninawe.
You will learn about:
- Orchestration vs. configuration management
- Declarative vs. procedural language
- Mutable vs. immutable infrastructure
- State management
- Configuration drift
A key distinction between the two tools lies in their approach to infrastructure immutability versus mutability. Terraform supports an immutable infrastructure model by easily provisioning new resources while deprovisioning old ones, minimizing risks associated with configuration changes on existing infrastructure. Conversely, Ansible, though not primarily designed for full lifecycle management like Terraform, supports mutable infrastructure through VM image creation and other configuration management tasks. Nice one!
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